MeioFio
CISMA
- 15.11 2024
- Culturgest - Garagem
- 23H30
- No ticket required. Access via steep ramp
- ages 18+
- 4h30 min
An invitation to clash and reconnect – and generate new perspectives.
CISMA (a play on the word for earthquake) is the title of this year’s opening night.
MeioFio – Ágatha Cigarra, Era Rolim, Xana Modas, Renato Rocha and Junior Barros – creates work that draws on the purposes and impulses of parties in all their plurality. Impelled by the jolts of friction between different spaces, territories, forms, and rhythms, CISMA encourages encounters between contexts that were separated by history, but now clash and reconnect to generate new perspectives. Between the material and virtual world, what is invented reality? How can we redesign it to repair the cracks and dance the samba with the artifice of new intelligence?
Credits
Artistic Director, DJ Ágatha Cigarra Produced by Amandi Silva Audiovisuals Astronauta Mecanico Video performer Era Rolim Production Manager Junior Barros Bar Kalimodjo Guest Bartender Peter Bormann Communication, design, lights, DJ Renato Rocha / Kali Kaliza Costumes, DJ Xana Modas
Born in São Paulo — the city where she grew up in the daily flows of immigration and developed tactics for street expression as a member of party collectives — Ágatha CIGARRA has been a DJ, performer, music producer and cultural agent for over 15 years. She has spent half of that time in the Lisbon scene, working in partnership with the city and dissident artists. She has held residencies in the city’s foremost venues and is one of the driving forces behind the rise of street carnival in Portugal. Carniçeira, BLOCU, MeioFio (Alkantara Festival),...
Veruscka Girio (1975), from the Amazon, was born in the 1970s. A designer, multi-platform artist, VJ and videomapper, she was one of the first women VJs in Brazil (2003). She has used wireless image control since 2012, merging digital and analogue using obsolete or discontinued equipment. Her artistic language exists at the intersection between art, mathematics and the spirit, exploring transcommunication and raising questions regarding use, flux, routine and real-time. Her projects are shown both in the street, clubs and raves, and in museums and art biennials.
Renato Rocha was born in Brasília and lives in Lisbon. Graduated in Visual Arts at Universidade de Brasília (UnB), explores multi-linguages in the duality between sound and image. DJ, composer, designer, cenographer and cultural producer. As a musician has released 6 EPs and various singles in both digital and vinyl formats and has performed in more than 20 countries. He produced events in Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Berlin.
Alex Simões, also known as Xana Modas, is a visual artist born in Lisbon. A Fine Arts graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London, Simões works across DJing, event production, film, costume design, and set design, notably recognised for creating cardboard fancy-dress outfits and characters crafted from sequins. With a bold and provocative style, Xana Modas channels aesthetic trends through a conceptual approach, blending the extravagant with artistic subversion.
Junior Barros aka BIXA PRETTA, is a cultural producer, executive producer and Drag Queer performer based in Hamburg, Germany. Their journey began in 2001, when they started working as a Drag Queer performer. Born in Brazil, Junior spent the early years of their career between São Paulo and the Mediterranean, working as a cultural entertainer on international cruise ships for several years – an experience that took them across Northern Europe and shaped their relationship with interculturality, the stage and audiences. Back on land, they coordinated social programmes...
Era Jaja Rolim is a brasilian travesti, whose anthropophagic dance practice is translated through film, theatre and choreographic installations. She conceives of performance as a form of living sculpture that allows they to become an object and a subject simultaneously. Infused by the symbolic creative work and reframing found in the collective imagination, they compose their work around ideas of the body – both individual and collective – as a medium that crosses borders.
